Thursday, January 27, 2011

Old Boy- Chan-wook Park


So I just watched "Old Boy"....
I'm quite disturbed
It's a 2003 Korean film and is very...different..
It got a 8.4/10 on IMDB and received a few awards and it is also number 102 on IMDB's top 250 movies list. So with that in mind I was expecting some pretty great things..
It was nothing like I expected.
I suggest if you would like to watch it to stop reading this right now because I'm probably going to spoil it for you.

So according to IMDB Old Boy is a about "After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days."

This is an accurate summary but it gets so much more fucked up than that. Basically this man (Dae-Su) is kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, he is told that his wife is dead (he has been framed for murder) and that his daughter has been supposedly fostered out in Sweden.

Turns out that his daughter hasn't been in Sweden, the young woman that he has met and has been having sex with is actually his daughter.
So that's rather fucked up..
The kidnapper (Woo-Jin) is doing this because when Dae-Su was younger he caught Woo-jin having sex with his sister( Woo-Jin's own sister)......Incest is quite a clear theme..

So you find this out towards the end of the film and you're left feeling extremely weird. Like you don't know how you should feel about it..

There were some disturbing scenes like when Dae-Su cuts off his own tongue or when he eats a live octopus.

It was a pretty good film except for the obvious..

I litrally just watched it, so maybe I'm not the right mind-set to write about it.
I just feel weird about it, it's screwed up.

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